Hey Commander! ːcommandingː
A LOT has happened in the past few weeks. For example, Mr. Darkness has been to White Nights Business Conference for Game Development, which has been a positive experience for him, and will be in time for us too. I have concentrated on staying in the background and working on some other, exciting things that will help Vortal Storm reach a new level. More on that in a bit, though, let's start with what we always do..!
Community Update
Unfortunately, due to the absence of a lot of VS Staff Members, the community took a bit of a dive again. I hope that this picks up sometime soon, I will be speaking to several other folks on hosting some games and streaming them, but I cannot promise anything right now.
Development Update
As we have surpassed the half-year mark of 2017 already, we have set to thinking after White Nights. Lambda Wars is great, as we all realise, and will never be put under payment (as some people feared). It will remain a free mod from now until the end of times.
However, the future of Lambda Wars is discussed in the next segment.
So what hell is goin' on 'ere?!?!
Allow me to start at the beginning. Darkness did his part for Vortal Storm by attending a business convention in Russia which has shown to be very serious in its development. Giving both Darkness, and myself in turn some food for thought, we have come to a few conclusions.
Lambda Wars, while great, will not be Vortal Storm's one-stop-shopper. As we realised, it is only the beginning. Darkness and I speak of our next project a lot, which will feature Unreal- or Unity Engine. However, exactly what it will be is unknown as of yet.
We have, in collaboration with the above, decided to step up the serious vibe to the upstart that is Vortal Storm. Rather than just a bunch of collectives to one goal, we will now be attempting to grow, and hopefully - one day - establish ourselves as a company, and even have an office somewhere. (One can dream, right?)
And continuing on the 'serious vibe', there have been changes in staffing as well. As you may have noticed, some of the developers have been removed off their rank in order to restructure some.
And... As it stands, I will take official distance from my previous task as Community Manager. I will make way for Cupid, who will fill my shoes as Community Manager, and I will continue within Vortal Storm as its Chief Administrative Officer, running Vortal Storm together with Mr. Darkness.
So, it's not really goodbye if I'm not leaving, but I will take a lot more distance from the official community tasks.
I want to thank all of you for the wonderful 7 months of work I've been allowed to do within this community as its manager, but it's time to look ahead, and take on new challenges.
The Future of Vortal Storm:
The future of Vortal Storm is not etched in stone right now, but our next focus is to assemble two teams of developers. One small team to stay working on, and bugfixing, Lambda Wars.
The other, larger team will work on a new game with us, that will be applied within Steam again at a price, which is our next step forward.
We hope to see you sometime!
Husky & Darkness.